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moreluck
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Fun fact: The equipment Hawking uses to communicate is Israeli made.
Via Raw Story:
Via Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged.
Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were “surprised and deeply disappointed” that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month’s presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
Hawking pulled out this week in protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, in the wake of receiving the letter and soundings from Palestinian colleagues. The 71-year-old theoretical physicist’s decision has been warmly welcomed by Palestinian academics, with one describing it as “of cosmic proportions”, but was attacked in Israel.
Chomsky, who has backed “boycott and divestment of firms that are carrying out operations in the occupied territories”, agreed to add his considerable weight to the pressure on Hawking after email correspondence with the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine campaign group (Bricup), said its chair, Jonathan Rosenhead.
The letter to Hawking declared: “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain”, its treatment of the people of Gaza amounts to “collective punishment”, the construction of Jewish settlements breaches the Geneva convention and “Israel places multiple roadblocks, physical, financial and legal, in the way of higher education, both for its own Palestinian citizens and those under occupation”.
Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were “surprised and deeply disappointed” that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month’s presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
Hawking pulled out this week in protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, in the wake of receiving the letter and soundings from Palestinian colleagues. The 71-year-old theoretical physicist’s decision has been warmly welcomed by Palestinian academics, with one describing it as “of cosmic proportions”, but was attacked in Israel.
Chomsky, who has backed “boycott and divestment of firms that are carrying out operations in the occupied territories”, agreed to add his considerable weight to the pressure on Hawking after email correspondence with the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine campaign group (Bricup), said its chair, Jonathan Rosenhead.
The letter to Hawking declared: “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain”, its treatment of the people of Gaza amounts to “collective punishment”, the construction of Jewish settlements breaches the Geneva convention and “Israel places multiple roadblocks, physical, financial and legal, in the way of higher education, both for its own Palestinian citizens and those under occupation”.
Standoff at Western Wall by religious nuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/middleeast/3-ultra-orthodox-men-arrested-in-western-wall-standoff.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/middleeast/3-ultra-orthodox-men-arrested-in-western-wall-standoff.html?_r=0
wkmac
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wkmac
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Didn't they just assassinate a top Iran cyber guy?
wkmac
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ImWaitingForTheDay
Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
Israel wants to have it both ways, if not ALL ways. I'd like to see the US stop sending money to them. We've already made them the 4th most powerful military in the world, and it's not like that has done US any good. Israel is not our friend.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Am I the only one who doesn't give a crap about Israel? Republicans always rant about stopping foreign aid, but when it comes to Israel....
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
I say stop all foreign aid to all the countries.
Israel will survive with out it. But I personally want Israel to kick some Hamas butt.
Israel continues to kill women and children. There motives for killing them is simple. Blame hamas for being in hospitals, so why not blow it up and kill doctors, nurses and patients?
FOX news would LOSE their mind on the air if hamas struck a military field hospital because there were israeli soldiers there.
For me, I dont give a crap about israel.
They cause their own problems by stealing land that doenst belong to them and forcing palestinians to live in squalor while they take crops, water and resources.
TOS.
FOX news would LOSE their mind on the air if hamas struck a military field hospital because there were israeli soldiers there.
For me, I dont give a crap about israel.
They cause their own problems by stealing land that doenst belong to them and forcing palestinians to live in squalor while they take crops, water and resources.
TOS.
moreluck
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It's stopping foreign aid to the countries who hate us and want to kill us......get it straight !!
MAKAVELI
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You mean like Iraq and Afghanistan?
